Info
Date: 2018 - 2018
Commitment: Fondazione Torino Musei (Private Customer)
Address: Palazzo Madama, Turin
Desing architects: Arch. Matteo Patriarca; Arch. Gabriele Iasi; Vairano Architecture Studio;
Professional job: Museum set up
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Description
After the first stop in Geneva (2017), the exhibition reaches Turin thanks to the collaboration between the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica of Turin and the Musée Savoisien of Chambéry.
The wall paintings come from the castle of Cruet, owned by the lords de la Rive. More than 40 metres long, they were detached from the walls of the Savoyard residence in 1985 for conservation reasons and exhibited at the Musée Savoisien of Chambery. The cycle represents episodes taken from a famous chanson de geste, the Girart de Vienne by Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, composed in 1180 and dedicated to the vicissitudes of a knight of the court of Charlemagne. The exhibition shows scenes of hunting in the forest, battles, duels, the siege of a castle, the feudal investiture, the representation of a banquet, alongside narrative episodes specific to this knightly poem. Arranged in a sequence, the paintings ideally reconstruct the decoration of the courtly hall of the castle of Cruet thanks to a scenic installation by the architect Matteo Patriarca with Gabriele Iasi and Vairano Studio.
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